{"id":20087,"date":"2024-05-20T16:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/?p=20087"},"modified":"2024-06-17T13:31:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:31:57","slug":"clergy-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/sticky\/clergy-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Clergy Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Reverend Robert W. Marshall, Jr., Bishop of Alexandria, has made the following clergy appointments, to be effective on July 1, 2024:<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Scott Chemino, <\/strong>is re-appointed Pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church, Bunkie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Wade DeCoste, <\/strong>presently Pastoral Administrator of St. Joseph Church, Marksville, is appointed Pastor of that church.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Joseph Desimone, <\/strong>presently Pastoral Administrator of Immaculate Conception Church, Dupont, is appointed Pastor of Holy Ghost Church, Marksville, and St. Richard Chapel, Hickory Hill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Derek Ducote, <\/strong>presently Pastoral Administrator of St. Alphonsus Church, Hessmer, is granted a leave of absence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor James Ferguson, <\/strong>is re-appointed Rector of St. Francis Xavier Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Robert Johnson, <\/strong>presently Parochial Vicar of St. Frances Cabrini Church, Alexandria, is appointed Parochial Vicar of St. Joseph Church, Marksville.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Kenneth Michiels, <\/strong>presently Pastor of St. Michael the Archangel Church, Leesville, is appointed Pastor of St. Alphonsus Church, Hessmer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Daniel O\u2019Connor, <\/strong>presently on sabbatical leave, is appointed Pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Vidalia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Adam Travis, <\/strong>presently working outside the diocese, is appointed Pastor of St. Michael the Archangel Church, Leesville.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Joseph Xavier, <\/strong>presently Pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Vidalia, is appointed Parochial Vicar of St. Frances Cabrini Church, Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Abraham Varghese, <\/strong>presently Pastor of Holy Ghost Church, Marksville, and St. Richard Chapel, Hickory Hill, is appointed Pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, Dupont.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <strong>Deacon Donald Kuzma<\/strong> will be ordained to the priesthood on May 25, 2024.\u00a0 His appointment as a Parochial Vicar will be announced on the date of his ordination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Reverend Robert W. Marshall, Jr., Bishop of Alexandria, has made the following clergy appointments, to be effective on July 1, 2024:\u00a0 Monsignor Scott Chemino, is re-appointed Pastor of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sticky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20091,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions\/20091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesealex.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}